英和和英

語源

Calque of Ojibwe me'coubmoosa (“bear walker”).

名詞

bear walker (複数形 bear walkers)

1. (Native 米国用法, folklore) An evil sorcerer, specifically one who walks by night in the form of a bear.
   • 1901, The Wisconsin Archeologist, Charles Edward Brown, page 116

     The hair ornament was worn by the Bear-Walker before and during the casting of spells.

   • 1953, Inland Seas, Great Lakes Historical Society, page 13

     He told Jim he saw a Bear-walker approaching the house then and there.

   • 1983, Christopher Vecsey, Traditional Ojibwa Religion and its Historical Changes‎^[1], →ISBN, page 148:

     These bear-walkers owed their powers to their personal manito, the bear, and traveled in disguise at night, causing disease among their victims.